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Re: Cacti 0.8.6j Released (fwd)
From: Peter Dambier <peter () peter-dambier de>
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 09:18:30 +0200
Matthew Palmer wrote:
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 08:10:56PM -0700, matthew zeier wrote:and more to the point how the whole shebang (I'm using net-snmpd) is typically used.Agent on device provides values, management app(s) collect data by polling (and possibly via traps), sysadmin gets to go home on time for once.I have yet to see this work in practice however.Yeah, I misread 'typically' as 'theoretically'. Practical experience is more like: Agent on device lies about it's values, management apps collect lies (andignore/lose traps), and the sysadmin has yet more software to swear at. <grin>- Matt
Just for curiousities sake IASON is reading logs most of the time. proc2pl is reading the /proc filesystem. I did not find the time and equipment for testing so I used snmpwalk to write a file and read it just like any normal file or /proc. Processing the output of snmpwalk just got me the "normal" log file I was interested in. I tried writing back into snmp variables but I never got a HP Procurve switch to do what I wanted. When they used different MIBs for different families of their switches, I gave up. Now I see linux boxes most of the time. They all use different MIBs for different things. Reading /proc is much easier and there a fewer differences between the machines. The soho stuff I find mostly uses web interfaces sometimes a real linux with a real log but almost never snmp. Looks sad, but I am still interested as it could make things a lot easier. Cheers Peter and Karin -- Peter and Karin Dambier Cesidian Root - Radice Cesidiana Rimbacher Strasse 16 D-69509 Moerlenbach-Bonsweiher +49(6209)795-816 (Telekom) +49(6252)750-308 (VoIP: sipgate.de) mail: peter () peter-dambier de mail: peter () echnaton arl.pirates http://iason.site.voila.fr/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/iason/ http://www.cesidianroot.com/
Current thread:
- Re: [cacti-announce] Cacti 0.8.6j Released (fwd) Travis H. (May 08)
- F/OSS config mgmt or net mgmt apps Travis H. (May 08)
- Re: Cacti 0.8.6j Released (fwd) Matt Palmer (May 08)
- Re: Cacti 0.8.6j Released (fwd) matthew zeier (May 08)
- Re: Cacti 0.8.6j Released (fwd) Matthew Palmer (May 08)
- Re: Cacti 0.8.6j Released (fwd) Peter Dambier (May 09)
- Re: Cacti 0.8.6j Released (fwd) matthew zeier (May 08)
- RE: [cacti-announce] Cacti 0.8.6j Released (fwd) michael.dillon (May 09)
- Re: [cacti-announce] Cacti 0.8.6j Released (fwd) Joe Abley (May 09)
- RE: [cacti-announce] Cacti 0.8.6j Released (fwd) Steve Sobol (May 09)
- Re: [cacti-announce] Cacti 0.8.6j Released (fwd) Travis H. (May 16)
- Re: [cacti-announce] Cacti 0.8.6j Released (fwd) Dorn Hetzel (May 17)